braggadocious

British  

/ ˌbræɡəˈdəʊʃəs /

adjective

1. informal  boastful

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Etymology

Origin of braggadocious

C20: from _braggadocio

Example Sentences

And all those people who insisted that they couldn’t stand a city boy fell in love with the rich, braggadocious New Yorker.

From Salon

All three men have had a swirl of nepotism, charisma, arrogance, braggadocious behavior, and an innate understanding of people and how to connect with them, she said.

From Seattle Times

Haran grew up in Coney Island, near a middle-class apartment complex built by Trump's father, and he remembered Trump as a braggadocious playboy, not as the successful self-made businessman he later played on TV.

From Salon

The answer, for most of Trump’s dispossessed appendages and hype men, is to keep on doing what they were doing before, albeit in their current reduced circumstances, and hope that the cruel, braggadocious narrative of Trumpism as the sole recourse against encroaching socialism and national decline continues to resonate with a huge swath of America.

From Slate

“Before our first album, there weren’t many rappers being super stoked on being gay. But the way we talked about it was braggadocious in the way Lil Wayne is. That helps normalize it.”

From Los Angeles Times